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Residents in Humphreys County overwhelmingly rejected a wheel tax, but narrowly said yes to increasing local sales tax yesterday.

When Tennessee teachers return to school this month, they’ll face a brand new way of being scored on their performance. Classroom observations will make up about half of that score, and the state plans to make the results of those in-class critiques available almost in real time.

Winning an election may lie partly in reading the signs—yard signs, that is. The campaign ads that have popped up in yards and windows across the city could be subliminally sprouting votes.

The Country Music Hall of Fame announced Thursday that it plans to double its size by 2014.

Tennessee’s Education Commissioner appeared in a panel on teacher quality before Congress Wednesday. In his testimony, Kevin Huffman said that even though teachers’ jobs may depend on new evaluation scores, the state still hasn’t figured out just how to add those up.

Tennesseans aren’t the only ones overheated, thirsty, and tired. As temperatures remain in the nineties this week, farmers say livestock feel the same.

The purple coneflower grows in only one place in the world: Middle Tennessee. Right now, the wild Echinacea is on the verge of winning a conservation battle.

A heat advisory for the region continues until 7 o’clock Thursday night, though meteorologists say it could take a few weeks for the high-pressure system causing the heat to break up.

NASA’s final shuttle left the international space station for its return flight Tuesday. But while that program winds down, a Tennessee scientist is helping the agency launch into research on something deeper in space: asteroids.

Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena has seen big music audiences this year, thanks in part to hockey. According to Pollstar, the venue ranked ninth in the country for selling the most concert tickets. That’s up 14 spots since the same time last year.